Some days I roast homemade marshmallow and gluten-free graham cracker smore’s over a beach bonfire, dive into rolling waves and tuck into bed on time for a good night’s sleep. Other days I find myself taking an unexpected trip to the ER for a broken bone, postponing everything to deal with a car repair, or staring at a to-do list that I created [...] Continue Reading
Gluten-Free Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe
For the past few weeks I’ve been working my way through loads of zucchini using this classic bread recipe, homemade fritters, gluten-free pizza crust, pasta carbonara and more. It’s almost time to move on, but first I have to share this double chocolate zucchini bread with you. Now, there’s some debate in my house about whether this recipe is [...] Continue Reading
4 Things I Wish I’d Known When My House Flooded
One year ago, I woke up at 3am with water pouring through a light fixture onto my face. Seconds later, my husband and I ran upstairs to find water gushing through every light fixture onto our furniture and beloved belongings. We ran up one more level - where we live average-size homes are often three floors due to smaller lot sizes - to find it [...] Continue Reading
Gluten-Free Zucchini Fritters Recipe
Do your kids have a favorite veggie? My littlest adores celery, which I personally think of as a moderately tolerable vessel for scooping up ranch dressing. The rest of us don’t really have a favorite, though there are ones we prefer in each season. One vegetable that tops our list - actually it's a fruit if you want to get technical - is [...] Continue Reading
My Daughter’s First Phone Is A Troomi: Here’s Why
Lifeguard training. Bike trips to the library. A summer leadership program at a university. <<< Y’all, the squishy baby that I used to take everywhere with me is now fourteen and doing a lot of things on her own. And while I love watching Katie‘s independence grow, I also want to know that she can reach me if she needs to. That’s why [...] Continue Reading
Easy Strawberry Sauce Recipe
The sweet strawberry goodness of this sauce is proof that delicious doesn’t have to be time consuming or complicated. All you need are five ingredients - six if you count water - and about fifteen minutes to whip it up, and you have a total crowd pleaser. Bright and glossy, it brings an infusion of strawberry flavor to anything it touches. [...] Continue Reading
Butterfly Pea Flower Lemonade Recipe
I don’t do magic tricks, unless you consider the ability to transform mornings with magic beans - aka coffee - a type of alchemy. I do make magic lemonade, though, thanks to the color changing properties of butterfly pea flowers. Rich in antioxidants like epigallocatechin gallate (one of the main catechins found in green tea) and quercetin, [...] Continue Reading
Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread Recipe (Classic + Spiced Versions)
This time of year zucchini starts taking over our gardens, CSA boxes, and farmer's markets, so there are only two reasonable things to do: 1. Eat all you can. I recommend this zucchini pizza crust, zucchini pasta carbonara, oven baked meatballs, and this delicious and easy gluten-free zucchini bread recipe. 2. Dump the rest on your neighbor’s [...] Continue Reading
